Re: Finding out minimal allocation unit

[Markus E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:

> Markus E Leypold
> <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de> writes:
>
>> Stefan Bellon <sbellon@sbellon.de> writes:
>>
>>> Martin Krischik wrote:
>>>
>>>> So I believe the OP wanted to know how to find out how much memory
>>>> for "new"ed object is allocated in total in order to know if extra 
>>>> optimisation is needed.
>>>
>>> Exactly. :-)
>>
>>
>> I'm only guessing, but here is my approach for GNAT: GNAT is AFAIK
>> linked against libc (at least on Unix). On linux that is glibc, which
>> provides methods to catch/trace malloc() requests. My suggestion is
>> that you do that and look which sizes are actually requested from
>> malloc(). 
>
> That won't quite give the right answer, because malloc() adds a couple
> of words or so to what was requested.

And I thought it would exactly be the extra padding the OP was
interested in?

Regards -- Markus